Google search guru Singhal steps down, AI takes center stage

special feature AI and the Future of Business Machine learning, task automation and robotics are already widely used in business. These and other AI technologies are about to multiply, and we look at how organizations can best take advantage of them. Google’s head of search Amit Singhal is stepping down to be replaced by the company’s artificial intelligence chief. In a Google+ post, Singhal said he’s retiring and wrote: A lot has changed in the last fifteen years, Google has grown up a lot, and I have experienced tremendous personal growth. But one thing that has not changed, is the Google mission: to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. This mission is one of the things that keeps me so engaged at Google. I feel…